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Monday, August 20, 2007

OK, I've had over 900 hits to this blog today. Whew! I'm getting all these wonderful comments on my auction that are swelling my head something terrible. I've only done one load of laundry today because someone as magnificent as I clearly am, should not have to stoop to doing laundry. Someone with talent of this caliber should simply not have to do chores.

:::snort:::

OK, It's definitely time to make a little fun of myself in an effort to bring me back down to earth. I'm sorry about the picture quality. My scanner doesn't work with Vista (coughcoughconspiracy) so these are pictures of pictures.Here we go...

And thus began my legacy of bad hair.

Yes, my parents made me sleep on a shelf.

I always say my kids are going to drive me to drink. Now I see it was my PARENTS who started me on that path!

The predecessor to the down vest. An attractive look, no? I wish I knew what was on my finger. I'd probably just picked my nose or something.

This is what happens if your parents forget to pack your blankie when you go to visit relatives. What??? You've never sucked your thumb while holding a cat's tail?

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Oh my God! I had a top smocked dress in my kindergarten picture too! It was light blue! I had alot of those same outfits...what were our mothers thinking? I hope my kids don't look back at their pictures some day and wonder what I was thinking when I dress them!

LOL oh too funny, I have a bunch of similarly gorgeous photos of myself through the years, can we say Child of the 70's anyone?! And love the Big Hair, my husband is under instructions from me that if I ever mention the words "perm" and "my hair" in his presence he's to tie me to a chair until the impulse passes.

What I want to know is what's the deal with the fingers held up as numbers, you look too old in each for them to represent your age in the pics?

Ah yes, the fingers held up. LOL! I had to hold my fingers up to represent how old I was on my birthday AND, just in case that wasn't lame enough, I had to hold up fingers representing what grade I was in on the first day of school as well.

Dawn, I read your entire blog yesterday and I haven't laughed that hard in ages!!

You're a great mom with a terrific sense of humor and a talent to write all about it!

I only have 2 kids (so far, we'd like 4, but there are days when I'm done and 2 is enough) and I don't think I can ever complain again about taking the kids to Target or Trader Joe's after reading this.

Keep up the good work and the hilarious documentation of your life! I love it!!

Got the link for your blog from ebay of course. You know, your Pokemon listing is linked to breastfeeding.com? Here's the link: http://www.breastfeeding.com/forum/showflat.php?Cat=0&Board=UBB9&Number=1538237&page=0&fpart=1(I'm Love_Monkey over there btw)

Anyway, I feel like I'm just one of thousands of adoring fans but you really are brilliant!

I just read your ebay auction description and died laughing. A number of us online friends with pretty large sized families are passing it around.

I responded as SRLM...but had to come see the blog of such an humorous writer and really REALLY good mom who wouldn't let a package of Pokemon cards slip by because she knows next time it will be something bigger...like a cash register or pop machine slipped into the cart. That's right. Catch them and come down hard while it's still a package of cards.

I wouldn't be so bitter if the pop machine had Pepsi products instead of Coke products.

Ok, where's the linky-loo to your e-bay post? Will you reprint? I tried to find it on e-bay and couldn't!

I had the same hairdo in high school. I'm guessin' we are close to the same age. In fact I'm sure I burned several pictures of me wearing those exact same outfits....and the baby with a beer bottle one too!

Hiya girl!!! You are a total crack up and that comes from my best friend and I - Aussie mums who have four kids each and both have had a go at stand up comedy!!! I can laugh with you only cos in the supermarket I'm usually the one being laughed AT! lol Far our, who knew when we joked about running away to join the circus we'd just pop out some kids when we grew up and presto we've got our very own freakin sideshow everywhere we go! Loved the ebay item, totally appropriate way to deal with those cards! Keep well, don't go crazy and I'll pop back in to catch up on your v.funny existance - even if you do only have 14 brain cells left! Lotta love, Lu

i am one of the many people who read your ebay listing. sounds alot like my family growing up. there were indeed 6 of us. although us older children of the brood never snuck things in the cart(we were to afraid of the consequences,lol)the tow youngest on the other hand are a diffrent story. i give you props for even taking 6 kids to the store. i only have 1 so far, cant even imagine adding 5 of him,lol.

Dawn, I just wanted to say what a wonderful, witty and funny writer you are - I was sent your ebay listing as a link and can relate SO much (only have 3 kids but it feels like 6!)Well done and I love your blog writing as well!

Dawn - Thank you for the laughs today! From your ebay auction to the blog - my husband and I almost peed our pants laughing. We have so been in your shoes!!! You see we have 5 daughters (yes, they are all girls, all ours, and yes, my husband is fine with it! lol). We've often thought to get some t-shirts made up just for the grocery store comments. Hubby says you look just like me in some of your pictures - must have been a 70's thing. Your kindergarten pic could have been mine if you'd just had on some plaid knee highs!

We MUST have been born around the same time. I had the exact same golfer pants, similar Colonel Sanders shirt and "Dorothy Hammil" haircut. I even sported the "Lisa Lisa" hair-do in high school. Long live the seventies!

OMG! I definitely think our mother's shopped the same stores when we were kids! The curtains?! I think we had he matching ones in our family room! They are now at my father's hunting cabin in the middle of central Pennsyvlania! Walking in there is a blast of the past since it has ALL the old funrnishings of my family room as a kid! Even the dishes in the kitchen were ours! Talk about deja vu!

The haircuts?! OMG I looked like a boy til 6th grade! My mom yells becuase my 6 year old daughter has long hair but now way will I cut it that short and traumatize her! I told her that if Gramma comes near here with scissors to RUN LIKE H**L! LOL! Thanks for all the laughs! You are great!

Please tell me there's a book deal in the works! LOL! I'm loving this! Thanks for sharing your "gift" with all of us in cyberspace. I'd love to add you to my buddy list. I'm not near as good at blogging as you, but I'd like to be able to route others to your blog from there. Mine is settleforsurvivor.blogspot.com.

I found your blog form your ebay auction which was posted on my Mom's of Multiples Group. (We all have twins or triplets!) Of course we thought it was hilarious. We get all the "multiple" comments so know a little how those comments can start ummm making you come up with interesting comments!!! I love reading others blogs so I will be back!By the way the next time someone says...wow you have your hands full..my favorite commment back is yep and you should see how full my heart is!! (of course that is when they are all being angels and you are walking into the store! :)

Oh my god...I think I just woke my kids up laughing so hard.... a friend put me onto your Ebay auction link, which of course led me hear (and for whatever reason I am speaking what I type out loud as I type..I dunno, it's late...)

All I have to say is you CRACK me up...... mind if I put you in my blogroll? I just want other friends to be able to bask in the humor that is you!

if you were stressed with the upsurge in traffic from some scrapbooking sites i have bad news. you made the front page of digg.com. in case you don't know what that is, we'll just say it's been known cause an upsurge in traffic. but you definately deserve it, your blog is hilarious. and it looks like just the thing to give you a break from reality to be expressive.

Dawn your ebay listing is a top story at www.digg.com which I would think makes you famous now. I would be a millionare if we sold all the Pokemon cards in our house at the mark up you are getting lol. I think you'll break an all time record with hits..I have to be what, 10483923??I have to tell you that you have on my Limited sweater in that picture..I had one in pink too. You have EVERYONE beat w/ the eyebrows.. brave girl.Tomorrow I'll get around to adding you to my daily reading list. I can't wait to back track and read the rest of your posts. Now get back to work!

I love the huge hair. It's what I like to think of as a Big Hair Helmet (all that hairspray).

I had big hair, too, although mine was (dyed) blonde and I don't think I ever managed to get my hair as impressively high on the top!

I would have been SO envious of your huge hair... *siiiigh* Oh, the days when we had unlimited time to muck around with hot rollers and curling irons and hairspray... (Now I'm lucky to get a shower without having the house wrecked while I'm in there, something I'm sure you can identify with ;))

Oprah needs to see this! HAI havent even seen your ebay auction. Your blog link is going around Weight Watchers Message Board! I will be up all night reading! Love it, from a mom with 3 boys. A 21 yr old and 4 yr old twins. My brain cells are dying at a rapid rate also! - Shelley from Texas!

Ah, the pixie cut, smock top dress, culottes and AquaNet-fueled "The Cobra" hair; I remember them all well.

I came here via a link to your eBay auction that was posted on Reddit. I don't have kids (on purpose) and still I read every entry in your blog, laughing all the way. You really should write a book; you're funny (Erma Bombeck funny), and you have a real talent for drawing readers into your stories. Even readers who don't have any kids and last babysat at the age of thirteen. Besides, you know the difference between "your" and "you're"! :)

Wow, this is hilarious. My friend just forwarded me your ebay Pokemon auction page and it made me cry laughing and I had to check out your blog. This has officially become part of my morning routine. I check a few blogs in the morning and yours has officially been added. Very funny.

That was too funny! As a mom of 6 kids also, you got my vote for teh most realistic view of shopping with kids! My oldest is now 13 and she has to watch the kids while I go shopping so I can avoid that crazy stuff that happens to all of us. To tha lady who says her kids behave perfectly in public, ya right!

OMG you are so funny! I saw your auction posted in one of my yahoo groups this morning! I just died when I read it I was laughing so hard I fell out of my chair-no really, I agree with all the ppl who have said you need to right a book! you really are a great lady! Melissa

I found your ebay listing on the mommysaver.com site, I've since passed it on to every literate person I know for them to enjoy! I have a 16 month old, a 2 and a half year old and our third is due in 6 weeks lol. I can't imagine going out with 6 lol my 2.5 year old is enough to drive me to tears while shopping! Keep writing you are fabulous at it and I truly wish you all the luck and book deals ever! Here is the link to our thread where I was lucky enough to get to read this amazing listing!

I am one of those people who have linked off ebay to your blog. Loved your auction and nearly peed my pants reading your captions to those pictures. No, really, my pelvic floor seemed to leave at the same time as the last baby popped out. Making me laugh that much is dangerous work..

I just laughed harder than I laughed in a long time reading your blog with the pictures...thanks. Congrats on all the publicity! I love honesty and your ebay auctions were just plain honest! :) I am going to read your blog daily! :)

Hee hee hee, my mom dressed me the same way...I wore some of the same things when I was small. I love the one with the kitty. I found your blog off of your ebay post and I was laughing my head off while reading it. Not that I was looking to buy pokemon cards but someone referred me to your funny post. I subscribed to your blog. You are a very funny lady. Have a blessed night.

Ah yes, the stupid comments from some people totally can make your day. I have 9, 5 boys and 4 girls. There is a pool going on at work about #10 (not yet). Geez, #9 is only 11 months. Give me a few more months.

Little boys are so much fun, aren't they? "Mom, watch me hang by 1 hand upside down from the trapeze bar." No, thats okay, I don't want to see you fall, just let me know if we need to go to the ER again for resulting injuries, stitches, whatever.

I think we had the same barber! The haircuts, the outfits & the old guy from Knott's Berry Farm! Back in "the day" when it was all FREE! I'm a single mom of 5 kids & 2 grandkids....my mom wants to know when we cloned my 6 year old and took him to the store!! lol...take care.

I'm in tears because I'm laughing so hard! Thank you, thank you, thank you! I'll be watching for your book. I'd like a signed copy so I'll be watching for you at Barnes & Noble. Go with the Aquanet look so I'll recognize you.

found you through 2Peas, my mothers of multiples group, and a website for pregnancy after infertility. you've DEFINITELY made the rounds. You're hysterical, and you're on EVERYONE'S bookmark list now. Congrats!

hi, I read your story on Ebay and I must say that I had e great laugh :-) I love your sarcasm, it's my second language to you know :-) Anyway, I wish you all the luck with your kids 'cause I think you'll need it :-)

ROFLMAO!!! OMFG you crack me up!! Your block link was passed onto all of the March and April 2007 mommies on BabyCenter.com. We're putting together a midwest mommies get together....wanna come..you don't have to bring all 6!! Love the pictures I have some of those too!!

okay, you are hilarious. i loved the ebay post and i love this blog. my cousin who is one year older than me and has five kids under 8 forwarded me everything! i, am newly married and always wanted kids but wondering what i'm about to get myself into!!

i love how candid you are about life. all of my married friends with kids tend to make their lives and children seem perfect. i know that's not how it is and i'm glad you are giving a voice to all those mothers out there who work so hard!

ROFL that was great! Your kids are gonna black mail you with these pics when u get really old with grandkids! "Hey look at moms pictures on this old Blog Site! She was crazy to ever put these up!" Don't take them down...Just do unto others b4 they do unto you , you know what I'm saying?

Ok... I'm dying of curiosity although you are likely much to busy to answer... buuuuut it couldn't hurt to ask. The high school picture looks waaaay too familiar... and I grew up in Illinois... so now I'm wondering if I may have gone to high school with you 100 yrs ago. I mean... I know a lot of us looked like that... but this one is a bit tooooo familiar. Sooo... Illinois native or transplant? :)

I was so not going to be one of those people who left a comment on your blog. I figured plenty of people have done it before me and I probably don't have anything new to say and, really, what would the point be as I don't know you. But Oh. My. Gosh. I laughed out loud at this post. Granted, the laughs were muffled as the kids are in bed and I will do anything to not wake the kids once they are in bed, but let me say it again: Oh. My. Gosh. You are hilarious. You should definitely write a book. Or do stand up. You are too funny to be limited to the blogosphere!

Hey! It's carleelyn from Ebay...it's okay if you don't remember lol...you are famous now :D..my husband was supposedly working but laughing at your pokemon auction hee hee...anyway..Ebay limits how much you can type...your blog is even funny! Get on Oprah and then shoot for ELLEN! You would so fit in! I know you are going to be a great hit with your books! I am just loving reading all of your things! I can't wait to see what is next..HAHA

I can so relate to you and the kids...rem I have the 4....well my oldest is 15 (girl) ditzy blonde...14 yr old boy...jock....3 yr old with a diff hubby...the best...spoiled princess....and of course last is my 2 yr old king of the house..

bed rest for the last 2 was so fun and the shots were exciting. I loved getting a hole poked in my hip every week...lol..

well I am like you, I guess because I started over (why, I dunno..he didn 't have kids lol) and have a more mellow hubby this time..I have learned to laugh at things and actually it is better. I am not saying I don't still scream and yell but at least I am not ALWAYS doing it.

Also, everything in my house used to have a place...now everything is wherever you leave it lol. I have learned to not care so much about issues such as that...I realized I was driving myself insane! I am a tense person already and OCD with cleaning. My husband deals with techinical issues on computers (too detailed to explain)...so he has to go out of town all the time...how i love that...and the lil ones are daddy babies...i love that too cuz it makes my job so easy when he leaves and I am trying to pull them off of each leg...

just the other day as i was trying to relax...my 15 yr old was doing nothing and I hear my kids laughing and playing...right...well we all know if they are too quite then watch out...so I figure okay I hear em...they are havin fun in their room this is great...I decide finally after about 15 minutes to go see what was going on...only to find them in my kitchen...yeah not in their room...with 1/2 of my Kentwood water on the floor in my rugs and they were slippy sliding in my kitchen....boy I was happy then lemme tell ya! Half of a 5 gallon jug...i had a blast cleaning it!!

just thought I would share one of my stories from the other day lol...

I am the kind of person who talks to the cashier or the person behind me in line....come on, I watch Disney Channel all day....I need to have interaction with adults lol...well I hope I blogged this right...I never blogged before...

Your camera takes good pics of pics! Hard to do on some cameras. I think there is a conspiracy also about Vista and compatibility with printers/scanners! I was so mad when I realized mine won't work with my laptop with (ugh) Vista!:(Thx for sharing the pics!

Wow you look like your Baby espesially in the second and third Pic ! ( Well that should read your baby looks like her mummy ) Love the outfits nothing Wrong with them :) Reminds me of pictures Of my mum 20 years ago.-Debbie-